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THE WONDERFUL MINI) 



OF THE 



MAN AND THE WOMAN, 



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THEIR WAY IN LIFE. 



BY / 

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REV. M. W. WYNN 



Published by M. W. Wynn, Peter Gray and B. 
M. Pace & Co., A D. 1884. 



GREENSBORO: 
J. S. Hampton & Co., Steam Printers. 

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THE WONDERFUL MIND 



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MAN AND THE WOMAN, 



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THEIR WAY IN LIFE. 



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BY 



REV. M. W. W-YNN, 

Published by M. W. Wynn, Peter Gray and B. 
M. Pace & Co., A D. 1884. 






GREENSBORO: C*^ •• ? 
J. S. Hampton & Co., Steam Printers. 






Entered According to Act of Congress, in the 
Year 1884, 

By Moses W. Wynn, 
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at 
Washington, D. C. 



INTRODUCTION. 

Now, we find that there is no end to books. 
So, the writer of this little book feels, and 
hopes, that it will be a useful thing to the 
mind of the man and the woman, and while 
the mind of the man and the woman are al- 
ways desirous to be awakened to its benefit 
interest, so let us ever try and look to the 
tuture, and pray, and watch, and rejoice in the 
God of our salvation, and, dear readers, be 
careful to select choice and profitable works 
well adapted to expand, develop and decip- 
line the minds, to invigorate and elevate the 
heart and soul, to store and strengthen the 
memory, to vitalize, direct, and establish the 
will in prosecuting good resolutions for God, 
for humanity, and for heaven. But especially 
did I feel my responsiblity, and my mind 
cherish a thirst for sacred knowledge, after my 
conversion to God, to do good and to win 
souls to Christ. 

Moses Warren Wynn. 

Greensboro, N. C, Sept., 1884. 



CHAPTER L 

THE WONDERFUL MIND OF THE MAN AND THE 
WOMAN AND THEIR WAY IN LIFE. 

And it has been said by men of old times 
that the day breaks about 90 miles in a min- 
ute, and the wild goose flies from 60 to 90 
miles an hour. But the wonderful mind of 
the man flashes around the world about 90 
miles in a second, because you may ask a good 
thinking man a very important question and 
before that man will give you an answer he 
will look up toward the heavens and down to 
the green earth, because his mind begins to 
wander from place to place, and it is said by 
the great calculators that it is about 90 mil- 
lion miles from the earth to the sun, and we 
see every day how quick that wonderful mind 
of the man directs his eye up to the sun, and 
the mind of the man is the thinking faculty, 
and the intelligent power in man, and the un- 
derstanding of the soul, and the life of the 
man and the woman is very grand indeed, be- 
cause God made it glorious to behold, and the 
man is bold but the woman is beautiful, the 
man is courageous but the woman is timid, 
the man labors in the field but the woman 
works at the house, and the mans mind leads 
him to talk to the woman and to persuade her 
mind to please him. And we see that the man 
has a daring heart but the woman has a ten- 
der, loving heart, the man has power but the 
woman has taste, the man has justice but the 
woman has mercy, the man has strength but 
woman has love, and while the man is combat- 
ing with his energy and struggling with the 
world, but we find the mind of the woman 



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leads her at the house waiting to prepare the 
man's meals and to sweeten his existence. 
The man has his crosses but the woman is at 
the house to soften them, and the man's . mind 
may be sad and troubled, but in the loving 
arms of the woman the man's mind finds com- 
fort and rest. 

CHAPTER II. 

Now the man has strength and the exercise 
of his power and his mind is busy; he goes 
about, he thuiks, he looks forward to the fu- 
ture, and his mind finds consolation in the af- 
fairs of the world. But the woman's mind 
leads her at the house, and she remains there 
face to face with her sorrows and troubles and 
her eyes are often filled with tears and the 
woman remains at the house to feel, to love, 
to suffer, and to devote herself with the affairs 
at the house, and that will always be the sub- 
ject of woman's life. Now, look at the man. 
He has a precise and distinct language, but 
the woman has a peculiarly musical and mag- 
ical language, and the woman is heard scat- 
tering her words here and there with a song, 
and the woman's mind leads her to be very af- 
fectionate, indeed, and her mind is always in 
need of something to lean upon, like the vine 
that runs upon the fence; and we the man's 
mind is directed to the house by the affections 
of the woman's mind, and the consolation she 
gives him to protect and support her, and the 
woman is both superior and inferior to the 
man because she was the mother of our Sav- 
ior, which made her superior to man, and sec- 
ond, the woman is inferior to man because she 



was made out of the rib of the man. But yet 
she is humbled by the heavy hand of nature, 
and at the same time the woman is inspired by 
the immediate knowledge of a higher order 
than the man can ever experience, and the 
woman has already charmed the man's mind 
and innocently bewitched him forever and the 
man's mind still remains enchanted by the wo- 
man has a more stronger affection than the 
man, and a man with a bad heart has often 
been saved by the strong mind of a woman 
and the wonderful mind of a woman will often 
decide a question at once, to which the man's 
mind would be pausing over for hours and still 
finding his mind getting deeper and deeper 
into doubts and difficulties. 

CHAPTER III. 

Now look at the woman again and see how 
peculiar she is and how quick she will decide 
in her wonderful mind about a man. Just as 
soon as she looks the man in his eyes she will 
decide at once whether he is honest or not 
and if the woman fully decides in her mind 
that the man she met or came in contact with 
was dishonest, she will stand to her opinion 
though she may not assign any particular rea- 
son for such an opinion of the man. But she 
will say, I do not like the looks of his eyes for 
they do not- look right; and the woman will 
stand to that in her mind. Like the woman 
did at one time when she had decided in her 
wonderful mind to aggravate her husband by 
calling him old Crack-louse. So she continu- 
ed to call him that old name for a long time; 
finally he said to her, I want you to stop call- 



ing me old Crack-louse, and if you don't I will 
knock you down, but she would cry out and 
say, you are old Crack-louse, and at that time 
the old fellow knocked her down, but when 
she raised her head up she said, you are old 
Crack-louse, and he continued to knock her, 
but she would cry out every time old Crack- 
louse, and finally the old fellow chocked the 
old lady so that she could not talk loud, but 
she would work her mouth or whisper and say 
easy, you are old Crack-louse, and when he 
had beaten and choked her so that she could 
not talk loud nor whisper, so while she laid 
on the floor, she opened her eyes and looked 
him in the eyes and then put her two thumbs 
together as though she was cracking a louse, 
to let him know that her mind was fully made 
up to call him old C. L., and he could not 
change her mind. 

Now this is one great distinction of the wo- 
man's intellect for it walks directly by a more 
delicate insight, and a more refined and trust- 
ed knowledge, to which as man's mind gropes 
along and the woman's mind has already ex- 
ercised the greatest beneficial influence in sof- 
tening the hard and untruthful heart* of man, 
by which knowledge is apt to assume in the 
hands of direct observers, and the woman's 
mind have prevented the casting away the 
great and valuable truths which is too fine to 
be caught in a material sieve, and the wo- 
man holds the fine boundary line where the 
mind, matter, sense, and spirit wave their 
floating and undistinguishable boundaries, and 
exercise their complex action and re-action, 
and when a woman is in possession of a high 
degree of skill, she can see when any little 






trouble is about to take place, then she will 
say in a calm way, things are not going right 
now, and the woman notices the eye of the 
man, and she can see any sudden turn in the 
man's conversation, and at once she prepares 
her mind to meet him halfway, and above all 
the woman can penetrate into the state of 
man's mind so as to detect the gathering 
gloom upon his brow, before the clouds can 
thunder too loud, and the woman's mind can 
perceive any unwelcome that has been present- 
ed by the man's mind, and she knows when 
the pulse of feeling is beating higher or lower 
on account of some trifling circumstance which 
has just taken place, and the woman can 
change the feeling of social life, and the cur- 
rent of feelings so suddenly and in such a way 
that the man can not see her at all times, and 
that is done by the power which nature gives 
the woman, and the woman saves society a 
jgpreat many times from pain which would be 
apt to rise from the bad management of the 
man's mind as in the case when David sent to 
a certain man once to send him some provis- 
ions, and the man's mind led him not to send 
it. But the wonderful mind of the woman 
thought at once that David was a king; and 
she knew that there would be a great trouble 
with her husband; so she with her men went 
to meet David, and gave him some provisions. 
But notwithstanding the man's mind led him 
to send David's officers back without any pro- 
visions, but the woman's mind led her to go 
and meet David and present to him some pro- 
visions, and for such she saved a great trouble 
on herself and husband. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

Now look at the man's mind and see the 
way it leads him to be the creature of interest 
and ambition and his nature leads him out into 
the world to struggle, and the man's mind 
seeks for high and noble things in the estima- 
tion of the world, and to rule over his fellow- 
men. But the woman's mind is not that way 
but we find the woman's mind and whole life 
is a history of affections, for such is the wo- 
man's world* and it is there her greatest love 
seeks for hidden treasures, and her mind sends 
out her sympathies on the man as he goes out 
into the world, and the woman embarks her 
whole soul in the merchandise of affection and 
love, and if she gets broke in that trade, her 
mind and heart becomes bankrupted, and not 
her poeket. 

But the man's mind is not so, for if he gets 
disappointed in love, it may sometimes give a 
bitter pain to the mind and wound some feel- 
ings of tenderness, and it may blast some pros- 
pects of great happiness. But the man may 
scatter his thoughts in the whirl of occupation 
or go away into great pleasures, to get clear 
of his troubles and his mind is soon at ease 
again. 

Like the man that w r ent to town once on a 
big day, and while being there on that day, 
his wonderful mind led him to take a drink, 
and that drink called for another, and that for 
another, until the poor fellow became very un- 
ruly in the streets of the town; so at last his 
friends made up their minds to put him away 
so that he would not disturb the peace. So 
they locked him up in a very large cellar, and 






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he being unconscious about where he was; so 
he awoke way lite in the night and got up 
from where he was laying and looked all 
around and about, and then he began to feel 
about and a great many drunken men gener- 
ally do when they fall down they reach up for 
the ground. So that fellow, after feeling all 
around and over, his head, he could not see 
nor feel any top, no bottom nor sides, so all 
at once he looked up and made a long sigh, 
and he decided in his mind at once that he 
was in hell; so the poor fellow cried out and 
said, well, dead and in hell just as I expeeted, 
and said he, I wonder if there is any place 
around here that a fellow can get a drink at. 
Now we see how that man's mind went and 
come. 

CHAPTER V. 

x Now the woman has no natural gift that is 
more bewitching to the man's mind than that 
of a sweet laugh, for it is like the sound of a 
clarionet upon the waters, and it 1 ads from the 
woman's mind in a clear, sparkling rill, and 
the heart that hears that voice feels very glad 
indeed, and no doubt that you have pursued 
an unseen figure through the trees led on by a 
gentle laugh, now here, now there, now lost, 
now found, and the wonderful mind of the 
man is pursuing that wandering and loving 
voice of the woman to-day. And now in the 
midst of care and sorrow, and then we turn 
away and listen, and soon we hear that won- 
derful mind of the woman is changed and we 
hear her voice ringing throughout the house 
like a silver bell, with power to drive away the 



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evil spirits from her mind, and now we see 
how much the man's mind is indebted to that 
sweet laugh, for it turns prose to poetry, and 
it flings showers of sunshine over the darkness 
of the wood in which we are traveling, and we 
always see more of heaven than we do of earth, 
and the man's mind always leads him to look 
for more women, than men, and the man's 
mind is seldom unhappy while he has the love 
and smiles of the woman to go with him in 
every department of life and the world may 
look dark without, but when the man returns 
to his house and feels the tender love of the 
woman, that man's mind forget his cares and 
troubles for a little while, and there is no pe- 
culiarity of character so valuable in a woman 
than to have a sweet mild temper and the 
home of the man will not be happy unless the 
woman is in possession of that great talent, 
for it is like the flowers that spring up in our 
road, reviving and cheering us on our way. 
Now let a man go home at night wearied with 
the toils of the day, but how good that man's 
mind feels when a kind word comes from a 
good loving mind of the woman, for it is like 
the sunshine falling on his heart, and soon the 
cares of life is forgotten, and when you see a 
woman with true intelligence she is a blessing 
at home and abroad and in society, and wher- 
ever she goes she carries with her a health- 
giving influence, and there is a beautiful har- 
mony about her character, that at once in- 
spires a respect that soon warms into love, and 
that man who gets out of the way of the fe- 
male society, is like a blind man, for beauty 
has no charms for a blind man, and music does 
not please a poor beast who does not know 



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one tune from another, and there is one good 
blessing about the man, he is bound to respect 
the woman, and sometimes the woman's mind 
and heart twines around a proud and sinful 
spirit like roses round a lightning rod, cling- 
ing for help, and it often brings down upon 
her head the thunderbolts of woe. 

CHAPTER VI. 

Now you have a sketch of the national pe- 
culiarity of the woman's mind and character in 
four different parts of the world, England, 
France, Italy and America. I. The English 
woman is respectful and proud. 2. The French 
woman is gay and agreeable. 3. The Italian 
woman is zealous and passionate. 4. The 
American woman is sincere and affectionate. 
With the American woman's mind love is a 
principle, with the French woman's mind love 
is -a caprice, with the Italian woman's mind love 
is a passion, with the American woman's mind 
love is a sentiment on a thought prompted by 
feelings. Now, for the minds of these women 
in marrying: The English woman's mind is 
to marry a Lord, the French woman's mind is 
to marry a companion, the Italian woman's 
mind is to marry a lover, and the American 
woman's mind is to marry a husband. Now, 
for the man, in respect to the woman: The 
English man's mind is to respect his lady, the 
French man's mind is to esteem his compan- 
ion, the Italian man's mind is to worship his 
mistress, and the American man's mind r is to 
love his wife. And at night the English man's 
mind leads him to his house, the French man's 
mind leads him to his establishment, the Ital- 



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ian man's mind leads him to his private place, 
and the American man's goes to his home, 
and it is hoped that the American will go to 
his home a little oftener than the Irish man 
called on the Lord, for there was an Irishman 
at sea once, and he fell over board, and when 
he found out that he was about to be lost, he 
cried out and said, Lord, I am not one of them 
that is always hollowing and bawling after 
thee, but if you will just deliver me now I will 
never call upon you any more. 

CHAPTER VII. 

And the strongest man feels the influence 
of the woman's gentle and thoughtful mind, as 
it was with the wonderful mind of David's 
wife, the daughter of Saul, when she secured 
David, by pretending that David was in the 
house when he was out, and never did. Lan- 
guage speaks so truthful, as when she called 
the woman the better half of the man, and the 
man's mind admires the ladies because they 
are beautiful. The man's mind respects the 
ladies because they are virtuous. The man's 
mind worships the ladies because they are in- 
telligent, and the man's mind loves the ladies 
because they cannot help themselves. And 
we see that a woman's mind is more ingenious 
than a man's mind, and it seems to be so de- 
signed by the all-wise Creator, for the preseva- 
tion and perpetuity for the race of mankind, 
and the patience, the fortitude, the integrity, 
the piety, and the devotion of the woman's 
mind, are naturally stronger than the man's 
mind, and we read that the wonderful mind of 
the woman was the first to break the law. 



Yes, and we read again that the wonderful 
mind of the woman was the first to amend the 
law on earth by being the mother of our 
Saviour. 

CHAPTER VIII. 

Now, look at the woman's mind again and 
see how it led her. Yes, that wonderful mind 
led the woman to stand by the Cross, and see 
the last of our Saviour, while dying on the 
Cross, where the man's mind and heart had 
failed him; and the woman's mind led her to 
embalm the Saviour's sacred body. Yes, the 
woman's mind led her to the Saviour's tomb, 
very early on Sunday morning. Now, see the 
firmness of the woman's mind under afflictions, 
especially physically, for. it has been proved 
as a nurse that one woman will stand more 
than five men. Then again look at the woman's 
mind about her soul's salvation, and we find, 
as a general thing, that there are five women 
to one man that has decided in their mind to 
seek their soul's salvation and to connect them- 
selves with the Church, and the woman's 
wonderful mind has exercised a great and re- 
markable judgment in regard to the great is- 
sue of times, and her mind has prevented the 
casting away the great and noble plans which 
have led to great and remarkable discoveries 
and inventions, as when Columbus laid the 
plan to discover the New World, and Colum- 
bus applied to the man, but the mind of the 
man led him to laugh and turn his back on 
Columbus and his great plans. But the wonder- 
ful mind of the woman led her to hear his 
plans and to help him carry them out, and the 



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wonderful mind of the woman equips the man 
for the voyage of life. But the woman is sel- 
dom a leader. But she meets the man as a 
helper, and the man executes the project. 
-But the woman fits him out for the task, as 
Isabella did Columbus, when her wonderful 
mind led her to sell her jewelry, to lay down 
her vanities and her comforts, to send the man 
out for the good of the world, and such is the 
wonderful mind of the man and the woman 

| CHAPTER IX. 

Now, see how poor Katie's mind changed: 
Once there was an old lady who had decided 
within her mind, and a great desire also, to go 
to Heaven, and every morning poor Katie 
would get up very early and pray to Master 
Jesus to send Master Angel down to carry poor 
Kate home to Heaven, and this she did every 
morning. But at last the overseer or head 
man on the plantation heard poor Kate pray- 
ing, and the head man on the plantation de- 
cided in his wonderful mind at once, what he 
would do to old Katie on the next morning 
following. So, early the next morning the 
overseer got up before the old lady did and 
went to Katie's house, and she got up. She 
began to pray to Master Jesus to send Master 
Angel down to carry poor Katie home to 
Heaven. So, while she was speaking these 
words, the overseer knocked at the door very 
loud, and Katie stopped praying and said who 
is that. Then the overseer said, I am Master 
Angel, come down to carry poor Katie home 
to Heaven, and at that time the old lady 
jumped up and said with a sharp and loud 



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voice. Poor Katie is not here, she has not been 
here for two weeks. And such was the chang- 
ing of her mind. And we see, again, that it 
does not take a woman a great while to dress 
herself. But it takes the woman a very long 
time to decide in her wonderful mind which is 
the right and which is the left shoe, and what 
kind of a show she will make after she gets 
dressed. 

CHAPTER X. 

Now, the wonderful mind of the man and 
the woman are like the human pulse, and as 
the pulse beats very fast, indeed, and so it is 
with the wonderful mind. It changes very 
fast, indeed, and as the pulse is a throbbing of 
the arteries caused by intermitting impulses 
communicated to the blood by the heart. And 
30 it is with the wonderful mind of the man 
and the woman. It flashes and charges about 
by which a thought takes place, and works 
upon the brain, through which the mouth and 
tongue commits to memory and the hands 
and feet perform the duty. And within the 
limits of health there may be considerable 
variation, in the frequency of the pulse, and 
the number of times the pulse beats in a minute, 
differs very much with age, sex, stature, mus- 
cular action and mental action. The state of 
the digestive process, the time of the day, and 
the average frequency per minute, is approxi- 
mately indicated by the following table, given 
by Mr. Carpenter, one of the great calculators 
of pulses, and as there is such a great differ- 
ence between the beating of the man's pulse 
and the woman's pulse, and so it is a great dif- 



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ference between their minds in changing, etc. 
Now, we look at the beating of the pulse, from 
a newly born infant to that of old age. Now, 
the pulse in a newly born infant beats from 
130 to 140 times in a minute, and during the 
first year the pulse beats 115 to 130 times in a 
minute, and during the second year the pulse 
beats 100 to 1 1 5 times a minute, and during the 
third year the pulse beats 75 to 105 times a 
minute, and from the seventh to the fourteenth 
year the pulse beats 80 to 90 times a minute, 
and from th^ fourteenth to twenty-first year 
the pulse beats 75 to 85 times a minute, and 
from the twenty-first to the sixtieth year the 
pulse beats 70 to 75 times a minute, and during 
old age the pulse beats 75 to 80 times a min- 
ute, and the pulse of a grown woman exceeds 
that of a man of the same age as much as 10 to 
I4beats a minute, and the average beating of the 
pulse per minute in standing, sitting and lying, 
is, standing, a healthy man's pulse beats 81 
times in a minute, sitting, 71 times in a minute, 
lying, 66 times in a minute, standing, a healthy 
woman's pulse beats 91 times in a minute, sit- 
ting, 84 times in a minute, lying, 76 times in a 
minute. 

CHAPTER XI. 

Now, for the woman's mind beating the 
man's mind. Some years ago a celebrated 
lawyer in England was examining a very young 
lady, who was a witness in a case in court, and 
the lawyer asked the lady if the person who 
was assaulted did not give the defendant some 
very ill language, and uttered words so bad 
that I cannot repeat them, and the lady said, 



yes, sir. Well, said the lawyer to the lady, 
will you please, madame, be so kind as to re- 
peat.the words to the court. Then, replied 
the woman, with her woqderful and thought- 
ful mind, said to the man, why, sir, after know- 
ing all the words yourself, and if you have not 
impudence enough in your mind and brass 
enough on your face to speak the words in 
court, how can you think that I can speak 
such impudent words as they were in court? 
So you can speak them yourself, and I will 
answer to them, right or wrong. 

The man's mind, on the sweetness of the night, 
How sweet these sacred hours of rest, 
The fair portraits of the virtuous breast, 
Where lawless lust and passion rude, 
And folly never dare intrude ! 
Be others choice the sparkling bowl, 
And mirth the passion of the soul ; 
But a nobler jov my mind's design, 
Instructive solitude be mine, be mine. 
That silent, calm repast 
A cheerful conscience to the last. 

The pleasing and comforting, loving mind 
of the woman. Oh ! if there is one law above 
the rest written in reason; if there is a word 
that I would trace as with a pen of fire upon 
the unsunned temper of a child; it there is 
any thing that keeps the mind open to angel 
visits and repels the ill spirits, it is a loving hu- 
man mind, and God has made nothing worthy 
of contempt, for the smallest pebble in the 
wall of truth has its peculiar meaning, and it 
will stand when the man's best mind, and 
minutes have passed away, and the law of 
Heaven is love. Though that law has been 
usurped by passion, and profaned to its unholy 



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uses through all times, but still the eternal 
principle is pure, and in these deep affections 
we feel the great power of love in us, for every 
bird that sings above our heads, and every 
creature feeding on the hills, and every tree 
and flower and running brook, we see how 
everything was made to love. 

CHAPTER XII. 

The thought of ^he wonderful mind of the 
man. Befcfre the foundations of the world 
were laid, before the kindling light, the Al- 
mighty word obeyed, thou wert, and when the 
subterraneous flame shall burst its prison and 
devour this from the angry Heaven. When 
the keen lightning flies. When fervent heat 
dissolves the melting skies, thou still shalt be 
as thou were betore, and know no change 
when time shall^be no more. 

Father of all! in every age, in every clime 
adored by saint, by savage, and by sage, 
Jehovah Jove! thou great first cause, least un- 
derstood who all my sense confined to know, 
but thou art good and I am blind, yet gave me, 
in this dark estate, to see the good from the 
evil, and binding nature fast in fate, he left the 
human mind still free. What conscience dic- 
tates to be done, or warns me not to do, then 
teach me more thy love to know what bless- 
ings thy free bounty gives. Let me not cast 
away, for God is paid when man receives, and 
to enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's con- 
tracted span thy goodness let me bound; let 
not this weak, unknowing hand presume thy 
bolts to throw, and if I am right, thy grace 
impart, still in the right to stay, and if I am 



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wrong, O! teach my heart to find that better 
way. Oh! save me alike from foolish pride 
and impious discontent, and teach me to fee! 
another's woe and hide the fault I see; that 
mercy I to others show, that mercy show to 
me. Mean though I am, not wholly so since 
I was quickened by thy grace: O! lead me, 
wheresoever I go, through this day's life or 
death ! This day be bread and peace to my 
mind all else beneath the sun. Thou knowest 
if best bestow r ed or not, and let thy will be 
done. 

The wonderful mind about riches. Can 
gold calm passion or make reason shine? Who 
can dig wisdom from the mine or pit? Yes, 
wisdom to gold my mind prefers, for it is much 
less to make our fortune than our happiness. 
That happiness which great ones often see 
with rage and wonder, in a low degree, them- 
selves unblessed, and the poor are only poor. 
But what are they who droop amid their store? 
And nothing is meaner than a wretch of state, 
the happy only are the truly great, and the 
peasants enjoy like appetites with kings and 
those best satisfied with cheapest things. 



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